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How do I highlight text with color in confluence?

I have some documents in my Google Docs that I would like to transfer to Confluence.
My document makes heavy use of highlighting text in color to differentiate certain contextual elements in the document.

How do I highlight text with color in confluence?

11 answers

I still don't see any options for highlighting text easily. What are your plans in this regard?

9 votes
Manon Soubies-Camy _Modus Create_
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Jun 07, 2018

Hello Cobin and welcome to Community!

There is an open feature request: Provide ability to easily highlight text with color in WYSIWYG editor, you can vote for it to show interest and watch it to be updated.

You can use macros as a workaround:

  • Info (blue)
  • Tip (green)
  • Warning (red)
  • Note (yellow)
  • Background Color (custom)
  • Panel (custom)
  • Status (single words)

You'll get this as a result:

 

highlight.PNG

Hope this helps,

- Manon

how do you make the status box that big? Mine is only a few character wide, and after that it shows "..."

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Manon Soubies-Camy _Modus Create_
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Nov 05, 2018

Hello @Laura Servidei,

The status box is small and ends with "..." while in Edit mode, publish the page and it should be bigger :)

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but still when i wanted to make my header in red color background i am not able to see red color in the background color list can someone help me on this,

There is no background colour option available. However, work around is use macro - status i.e., custom label.

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Sep 13, 2023

It's remarkable that there's no text highlight for an enterprise-grade software. Why are you charging customers when customer still has to "vote" for a very basic feature?

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@Bilal agree, it's completely stupid and counter productive. Atlassian keeps failing for over a decade to delivery some of the most basic features across their entire product lineup.

One workaround available is to insert a simple, 1-cell table (by typing /table) and choosing from one of the available palette colors for the background of the cell:

Step 1 – Insert table.png

 

 

Step 2 – Add text and change background color.png

Result

Step 3 – Publish.png

not really an answer. more of an add-on. i really want to highlight text inline from my page, not put it in its own box. i need to identify code to be changed vs. code that is good. maybe i'm just stuck in an old version of confluence?

If you figure this out please share it.

Yellow highlighting is typically used to indicate 'work to do' in a document. I achieve this by commenting on the text, which highlights it in yellow and add a comment in 'to do'. Using comments for highlights in this way has the added benefit of providing you with a list of you highlighted test on a page. Here's an example:

Screenshot 2023-03-21 103615.png

That's a perfect solution for me, thanks for this tip/workaround.

1 vote
Zoriana Bogutska_Adaptavist_
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Dec 12, 2022 • edited

Hi there, 

Using Content Formatting Macros for Confluence it is easy to highlight text using a background macro. 

Screenshot 2022-12-12 at 14.49.06.png

Also, for background, add-on users can upload pictures to improve the Confluence page design.

 

Screenshot 2022-12-12 at 14.51.47.png

This app is developed by my Adaptavist team, so if someone has any questions - I'm happy to help.

Use the span macro to set the style.

Screen Shot 2021-05-27 at 9.33.55 AM.png

Where do we get that?

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I can't find it either...

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I don't see a "span" macro

I have no idea what macro @Dave Hildebrandt was using, but I created my own:

## Macro title: Span
## Macro has a body: Y
## Body processing: Rendered
##
## Wraps content in a span tag with optional class name and styles for the tag. Do not include quotes in the class name or styles.
##
## @param Id:title=ID|type=string|option-showValueInPlaceholder=true
## @param Class:title=Class|type=string|desc=The class of the element
## @param Style:title=Style|type=string|desc=An inline ctyle definition
## @param Title:title=Title|type=string|desc=Text to display in a tool tip

<span
  #if ($paramId)
    id="$paramId"
  #end
  #if ($paramClass)
    class="$paramClass"
  #end
  #if ($paramStyle)
    style="$paramStyle"
  #end
  #if ($paramTitle)
    title="$paramTitle"
  #end
>$body</span>
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Dean Ramdhayan
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Jun 07, 2023

This is the most basic function for documentation, how are you worth billions of dollars and not able to implement this

Hello,

I used the 'Highlight' Macro:

highlightConfluence2.PNG

or the 'Background color' Macro. This one highlights the whole row, though ^^'.

highlightConfluence.PNG

Where did you find a "highlight" macro? Did you purchase an add-on macro? Are you using Confluence Cloud? 

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As always: what I expect as a Wiki default must be bought

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Ollie Guan
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Jun 07, 2018

Looked promising, but is only available for server, which is no longer sold.

It's disappointing that text formatting options are so limited on Confluence.

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Ridiculously limited

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